Graphitint were the surprise winners in my recent experimentations. I’ll be digging further into them in a later video.

I’m still not 100% sold on the results so far. The graphite underlay seems to be deadening the watercolour – though I’ve done this technique before and had excellent results. Namely the image to the left.

This portrait was rendered with
graphite with watercolour on top.

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